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@@ -110,11 +110,11 @@ Flags
The following flags can be passed to `hold_lock_file_for_update` or
`hold_lock_file_for_append`:
-LOCK_NODEREF::
+LOCK_NO_DEREF::
Usually symbolic links in the destination path are resolved
and the lockfile is created by adding ".lock" to the resolved
- path. If `LOCK_NODEREF` is set, then the lockfile is created
+ path. If `LOCK_NO_DEREF` is set, then the lockfile is created
by adding ".lock" to the path argument itself. This option is
used, for example, when locking a symbolic reference, which
for backwards-compatibility reasons can be a symbolic link